In case you’re new here, the one thing I can tell you about me is, I can’t get enough of Shaun Tan. I had never been to a national SCBWI conference before the one that just happened in New York, and all it took for me to get there was to see Shaun Tan‘s name on the keynote speaker list. …
The @BrothersHilts: Illustrators I Greatly Admire: Exhibit F
The Brothers Hilts (with an “s” at the end, and not because there are two of them) Last fall sometime (I’m figuring around Halloween because that’s when Ben and Sean told me Barnes and Noble featured their book in displays for the holiday) I picked up a copy of The Insomniacs, written by Karina Wolf and illustrated by The …
New site up and running
I spent a whole, whole lot of time redesigning and updating my website: http://www.nora-thompson.com Among other things, I added media queries (that may or may not work; I’m hoping may) for surfers on mobile devices. I also added some things about my writing since my writer’s critique group keeps trying to convince me I am one. I ditched everything Flash …
New portfolio to Issuu
I’ve uploaded to Issuu the portfolio I’ll be bringing to the New York SCBWI conference next week, and here it is:
They must like me
My employers had these flowers delivered last week because of my surgery. I like to think I’m too much of a tomboy to go for flowers, but somehow they get me every time. Aren’t they pretty? Oh, God. I’m such a girl.
Small violinist, big room, part 3
Finished my drawing of Nick & Clarice, and here it is: I did this one in graphite, both pencil and powdered. Here are the original sketches for it, if you missed those.
Small violinist, big room, part 2
Almost two years ago I posted a sketch that I had intended to use for a postcard mailing. I wanted to do the illustration in color, but I didn’t start on it right away which meant I spent some extra time thinking about it. Some things weren’t quite right in it for me, but until a couple of weeks ago I didn’t …
My gynecologist brings out the best in me
You may have noticed—or not—that I haven’t posted lately. So did I. I guess time slips away from you when you’re thinking about other things. And what I’ve been thinking about has done its best to suck the creative juices right out of me. Let’s do this in the least painful way possible. I’m going to type in some words, …
Jack-O-Lantern Painting
So I’ve spent the last week and a half fighting a cold. Didn’t feel like doing much of anything. I pretty much sat around and coughed up a lung. But when I started feeling the least bit better, I really, really felt like digging into a painting. I had a couple of birch plywood boards that were already cleaned and …
Wellsboro Bike Rides=Wildlife Adventure
A couple of weeks ago we trekked up to Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, to spend some time on their rails to trails, but we weren’t ready for everything we saw while we were there. On our first day on the bike trail while we were riding along we saw a large animal on the trail ahead of us. When I exclaimed, “It’s a cat!” …
Scary mushrooms that pop up overnight
When I came back from an early morning run, I found these three little guys growing rampant in our front yard. They weren’t growing there the day before. It might be hard to see in the photo, but the largest one measured 7″ tall (the next largest one was 6″). I think they were deposited here by aliens. They’ll take over soon …
@neilhimself and geekiness and what one is willing to do about it
I guess it’s official: I’ve become a writing geek. I don’t know any other kind of person who would keep themselves awake until all hours just to nab tickets to see a writer talk. I found out a couple of weeks ago that Neil Gaiman was going to speak at the Carnegie Music Hall at the Carnegie Museum of Art in …